Sublattice localized electronic states in atomically resolved graphene-Pt(111) edge-boundaries

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3590-3596

  Merino, Pablo ^a   Rodrigo, Lucía ^b   Pinardi, Anna L ^c   Méndez, Javier ^c   López, Maria Francisca ^c   Pou, Pablo ^b,d   Pérez, Rubén ^b,d   Martín Gago, Jose Angel ^a,c  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

Author keywords

DFT; electronic structure; graphene nanoribbons; metal contacts; STM

Indexed keywords

DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; ELECTRONIC STATES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; PLATINUM;

DFT; DFT CALCULATION; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOCALIZED ELECTRONIC STATE; METAL CONTACTS; STM; UNOCCUPIED ELECTRONIC STATE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84899423691     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500105a     Document Type: Article

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